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  • POWWOW | 7 real responses to coming out as gay

    POWWOW | 7 real responses to coming out as gay

    We asked our readers and writers “Who was the first person you came out to and what was the response?” Their responses may bring heart into your life.

    what are typical coming out as gay responses in the UK
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    FINE… but I’m not…

    DANIEL –

    I told my best mate that I’m gay when I was 15. He said, “that’s fine, but I’m not” and that was the end of the discussion. We’re still great mates today. The best reaction I had to coming out was from a friend who shrugged her shoulders and said, “and…?” as if it was no big deal and she couldn’t care less. Really it shouldn’t be a big deal and we shouldn’t need to come out. Perhaps one day people won’t need to.

     

    Out of my first day of a new job

    ANDY

    I told the woman I was working with on my first day at a new job. It was a fresh start and she had no preconceptions about me so it was easier to tell a stranger. I was 21 so kinda old to be coming out really. She wasn’t bothered so it was nice to be finally open about how I had been feeling for years.

     

    My girlfriend did not take it well..

    SEBASTIAN

    My girlfriend – she destroyed her own bathroom.

     

    Mother’s always know part 1

    GLEN

    I told my mum when I was 17 years old. Her response was , “I’m your Mother and I already know you are gay, any decent Mother would know her child”.

     

    Mother’s always know part 2…

    DARREN

    My mum asked me. “Are you gay?” when I was 19. But I think most mothers already know.

     

    I’ve been to paradise, but I’ve never been to me.

    GRAHAM

    I guess the first person was myself. It took a while for me to be comfortable with that. The first people I then told was in the middle of an acting class whilst training at Drama School. The lesson was about getting your message across to an audience and the lecture was making people stand up and tell everyone something. He picked on me and so I stood up and came out with not too much thought about it. The room went quiet with little eye contact and I thought ‘what the hell have I just done’, but afterwards everyone kept coming up to say well done and that they were all proud of me. My sexuality wasn’t an issue for any of them and I’d never felt so free to be myself…

     

    See Mothers do know…

    MICHELLE

    Trust me, mothers know, it’s the torture of waiting for your child to tell you that’s di cult, watching all that angst is heartbreaking.

  • OPINION: What do LGBT people think about the term queer?

    OPINION: What do LGBT people think about the term queer?

    In an earlier issue we asked what our readers thought about the term “Queer”. Here’s what they had to say.

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    ©-Ruslan117-Depositphotos

    So way back when (issue 9, Feb 2015) we asked our readers what they thought of using the term Queer to describe the LGBT+ community.

    NOTHING…

    It means nothing to me, as a insult, a joke or a description of ‘what’ I am… I’m just a guy that likes guys. Chris Bennett

    INSULT OR DESCRIPTION…

    I think that ‘queer’ and ‘gay’ can both be used as simple descriptors or horrible insults. I’m overweight. The way some people call me ‘fat’ I would consider an insult but when my daughter snuggles up to my tummy, which she calls ‘fat cushion’, I’d be a fool to be offended. It’s not the word, it’s the way it’s intended. Lyn Renwood

    THE VICTIM MENTALITY…

    Thankfully, being old enough to have been around in the 80s, we reclaimed words like faggot, queer, poof, batty man etc, it’s a long list. We reclaimed, owned and openly used them, by doing so, it takes the sting out of it if people shout it at you in the street. Sadly these days, a lot of gay people wear the victim coat and too easily offended by things. We should all be proud of being shirt lifters, bum bandits, and fudge nudgers or even gay. Tony Reeves

    ALSO READ: Comment: Huff Post now uses Queer Voice for the LGBT section – and boy our editor isn’t pleased!

     

    DEROGATORY…

    While it may be a good thing for you to have ‘reclaimed’ these terms in the past, we are now living in a different time and those terms are used as derogatory terms for gay people as far as I’m concerned. Jake Antony

    JUST DON’T…

    I don’t like that word. It’s a word used within the community and even then I don’t like it. I certainly don’t like it when used outside of the community. I can think of a few words used by other minorities in just the same way. So to answer the question, no. Gary Thomlinson

  • WE ASKED | What things do you really hate about the gay scene in 2016

    WE ASKED | What things do you really hate about the gay scene in 2016

    We asked our readers what they really hated about the gay scene in 2016…

    As always you were open, honest and sometimes damming.

     

    STEPHEN DOYLE

    Hen nights. P*ss off down your own clubs with your fancy dress and blow up penises.

    JOHN CHARLES

    Well a straight strip club is about to open in Birmingham gay village. The sh*t will hit the fan, it’s right across from the Nightingale Club.

    JAY JAY PINKABELLE

    Screaming queens who think LGBT culture is American f*cking drag race!

    JACKSON PERRY

    Casual racism “no Asians, no blacks” how about no c*nts???? They need to p*ss off.

    PAUL HOLMES

    The guys who carry their bags on their limp wrists around town, the very feminate (sic) ones with screaching (sic) voices and the camp ones. I know each of us are different, but can’t they tone it down a bit.

    MARK MARSH

    Ageist attitudes, and A list queens looking down their surgically enhanced conks at us lesser mortals.

    This was taken from Issue 20. Download now for free.